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When Super Delegates Strike Back

For Some Superdelegates, a Chance for Revenge
by Steve Kornacki | February 21, 2008




It should come as no surprise that Democratic Party officials haven’t exactly been rallying to Hillary Clinton in her time of need.

While most Democratic voters remember Bill Clinton’s presidency with fondness,
as the era of peace and prosperity and two straight wins in presidential elections,

more than a few elected officials and Democratic leaders remember him as the selfish careerist who, time and again, threw them all under the bus.

Sure, he won re-election in 1996—the first Democrat to do so since Franklin Roosevelt—but at a steep price for the party.

When he came to power, Democrats enjoyed overwhelming majorities in the House and the Senate,
marking only the second time since the end of L.B.J.’s presidency that the party controlled both the executive
and legislative branches. But when he left, the G.O.P. owned both houses of Congress, the presidency and a majority of governorships—and within two years, Republicans gained a majority of seats in state legislatures for the first time in five decades....